Fw: FCC Access Charges

["Pat Fredrickson" <patfred@snowcrest.net>]

This came from my e-mail server.  For those of you who want to check out the
information & know for sure, here is the FCC site to do that.

Pat Fredrickson
Natural Horse Handling Rope Halters
http://www.catechnologies.com/patfred

-----Original Message-----
From: Dennis Engdahl <root>
To: customers <customers>
Date: Monday, January 19, 1998 8:04 AM
Subject: FCC Access Charges


>Recently, a number of you have received an e-mail discussing a proposal
>by the FCC to charge Internet Service providers an access charge, or
>a per-minute fee.  Many of you have forwarded this e-mail to us, asking
>whether or not it is true.  We knew that such a proposal had come to the
>FCC, but we did not know the details.
>
>It turns out that the proposal did come before the FCC, and they ruled
>against it last year.  The e-mail that is circulating now is accurate in
>all but the date.
>
>If you wish to see more detail, you may check the FCC's information at
>http://www.fcc.gov/Bureaus/Common_Carrier/Factsheets/ispfact.html
>
>Please do not continue to forward the e-mail that is circulating.  It
>does not accomplish anything, and unnecessarily alarms those who receive
>it.
>
>Thanks,
>
>Dennis
>